Posted on 07/25/2013 5:09:39 PM PDT by SJackson
In 1992 I gave an assignment to my 7th grade ESL kids. They were to draw the flag of the country they came from and on the reverse side of a 3/5 index card tell me why their family came to America. A Vietnamese girl, born four or five years after Saigon’s fall handed in an index card with the red and gold flag of the Republic of Vietnam. On the reverse side? One word, FREEDOM. I wish I still had it to send to Obama
Drill Sergeant double timing sings: “Ho Chi Minh was a sunuvabitch!”
Platoon: “Blue Balls, Crabs and The Seven Year Itch”.
FUBO.
58,000 times.
What else can you say, except to say it a thousand times?
Are you so naive to think that a dedicated Soviet agent who had worked for the Comintern for the past 20+ years was just going to allow the US to OWN Vietnam?
LOL, So True.
Well, you have to admit Ho did come to the US TWICE with hat in hand.
And TWICE we had an opportunity to at least mitigate what was about to be.
OTOH, the word “IF” does NOT exit in history.
I know you know what I mean.
We had most of the world in our pocket at the time. I doubt support of the Viet Minh rather than France would have had any political reprecussions, Vietnam under Ho would have been a communist country. Personally, were there a benefit to us, I wouldn’t have cared much about offending the French. As to the Japanese surrender, there would have been no role there unless you’re suggesting the Viet Minh sign in place of France, which wouldn’t have made much sense. There were only 9 or 10 allied signatories. The French, of course, being on both sides of the conflict.
Agree to disagree. The Viet Minh were prepared to accept US help. They simply wanted the French OUT.
American rubber companies pleaded with Foster Dollars to let the Viet Minh accept the Japanese surrender. They wanted those plantations in the worst way.
Foster Dollars was an idiot.
Do You Know? After the US refused to let the Viet Minh accept Japanese surrender, the French (and British) RE-ARMED captured Japanese troops and sent them into battle against a now very pi$$ed off commie bunch, AKA, Viet Minh?
(Japanese troops knowing they were going to face war crimes trials, fought for the French like demons. Many were pardoned.)
The whole battlefield after WWII was chaotic. And American stupidity MIGHT have mitigated a lot of that, had any one paid attention to HO.
Yes, he was a commie. But no, he hated China and distrusted Stalin.
All I’m saying is, we had a CHANCE, and we blew it. We’ll never know now. But hey, that’s how history rolls.
Obama is an idiot.
Just goes to show how thoroughly the Left has gained control over the history books.
yep.
Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho
Obama’s Gotta Go
Has he made it to Israel yet?
I understood that he did approach the US first about arms and support for fighting the French colonial forces after WW2 ,,, when we turned him down due to treaties he approached the USSR.
Thanks SJackson.
Bette Midler: GOP Tried to Prevent U.S. from Winning WWII
Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood | 25 Jul 2013, 9:15 PDT
Posted on 07/25/2013 5:36:38 PM PDT by drewh
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3047381/posts
yeah right... And so was Pol Pot!!!
“Like Castro, he would have been happy to have our support. For awhile. Reminds me of a few Arab states, but I’ll leave that for another thread.”
Well put.
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That’s why I love this site; besides being on the same page for 90% of the issues, I learn a lot (even from people I don’t agree with).
My reference was to 1919; anything you post about subsequent events has no bearing on the discussion. I am no fan of Ho Chi Minh; he can rot in Hell with Stalin, Mao, and co.
“I understood that he did approach the US first about arms and support for fighting the French colonial forces after WW2”
He shouldn’t have been surprised that we wouldn’t go along with that, after pretending the French were allied with us in WWII. After WWI he really expected a nonviolent dissolution of Europe’s empires to give independence to Vietnam.
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